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Fun Stuff

Brand new competition and Facebook application for MEYArabic

December 24th, 2009Ahmed Zidan (Egypt)

We’re pleased to announce a brand new competition and Facebook application for MEYArabic. The events that come along with MEYArabic first anniversary celebrations, in style.
The new competition will put all the blogs of passing month, at the beginning of every new month, head-to-head to compete hot-on-heels for the elegant virtual awards, The Featured Blog of [...]

5 reasons why I stopped using Twitter

October 8th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

I was late to Twitter. It was the 23rd of December, 2008, when Mideast Youth first had its Twitter account. To be honest, I wasn’t excited to use this service, even though I realized its importance, and I knew it was absolutely vital for a growing network like ours to leverage its power. In many [...]

VideoCivil unrests; Iran and Moldova

June 21st, 2009Lord Kavi (Iran)

Today, I tried to listen to music to get a little rid of news. Since I’m really into folk music, especially Balkan’s folks, I played a song from Eurovision 2009 Contest called Hora din Moldova or Dance from Moldova. I really like this song.
This song made me curious to discover where and how Moldova is. [...]

ImageMideast Tweets: Find tweets from and about the Middle East

May 20th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

Twitter is a great tool that allows us to communicate in ways that we never did before. The best part about Twitter is how fast we can be aware of new projects, incidents, or even opinions before they are picked up anywhere else. Mideast Tweets helps us discover how Twitter is being used in the [...]

Allah Made Me Funny

March 30th, 2009Lauren (Guest)

Allah Made Me Funny, the world’s funniest Muslim comedy show is back in town for a one off performance at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The stand up comedy show consists of three of the America’s funniest comedian’s who will deliver one night of hilarious new material on topics such as being a muslim in America, politics, [...]

An Iraqi Message, On Our Behalf..

December 15th, 2008Lou (Saudi Arabia)

I bet most of you witnessed yet another funny moment in History. And thanks to YouTube, it’s there to stay for everyone to see..
I haven’t laughed this hard, while watching the news, in a while.. a long while actually..
Now, before anyone stresses the point, i don’t personally agree with what the reporter did.. However, it’s [...]

Join the Mideast Youth network on Facebook

July 26th, 2008Esra'a (Bahrain)

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Thoughts through photos..

June 29th, 2008Rasha (Saudi Arabia)

woman shadow

mental prison

male vs female

Relationships, what is vs. should be!

tumbled thoughts!

Look out of your window and take a photo (share it with a German e-Zine)

May 24th, 2008Esra'a (Bahrain)

For the past couple of months we have been occasionally collaborating with the great German e-Zine Zuender, and you can see a previous list of contributions here. This time they come to us with a new curiosity – what lies on the other side of our window.
To protect your privacy, they have set up a [...]

Barack-y

April 21st, 2008D.B. Shobrawy (Egypt)

Any regular reader of this site knows I haven’t endorsed any of the available candidates and its fair to say I hate all of them although I cant deny that I’ve reserved a special serving of disgust and ridicule for both Hillary and Obama. However I hate Hillary a little bit more than I hate [...]